James Macpherson
James Macpherson is a sought-after international speaker with a background in journalism at the Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. He previously pastored a significant church in Australia and South Africa. A well-recognised Australian journalist, James is a regular contributor to The Spectator and a host at Sky News. You can subscribe to receive all his articles on faith, culture and politics at his Substack.
Articles by James Macpherson:
24 July 2026
1.8 MINS
Adelaide University energy expert Daniel Rossetto has said that ensuring renewables were reliable was expensive. But there was a solution: learn to love power outages.
23 July 2026
1.3 MINS
When the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sir Salman Rushdie's survival of a stabbing attack, it forgot to mention the "Islamic terrorist" part of the Islamic terrorist attack he fell victim too.
22 July 2026
3.3 MINS
Senator Andrew Bragg asserts that Muslim terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. It’s all down to a mutation in their own mind. But why aren’t Baptists, or Presbyterians, suffering this same mutation of the mind that leads to acts of violence?
21 July 2026
2.5 MINS
The ABC was quick to mock Malcolm Roberts' conspiracy theories — but strangely incurious when Liberal senator Andrew Bragg rewrote biology.
20 July 2026
3.5 MINS
Some Liberals have come up with a way to improve their electoral fortunes: Gender quotas. That’s right, they’re proposing to ease up on the whole meritocracy thing in order to make room for some good old-fashioned DEI.
16 July 2026
3.6 MINS
Jason Clare’s “vanilla” attack on One Nation's immigration policy dissolved under scrutiny, leaving only fruit salad and spin.
13 July 2026
5.6 MINS
Donald Trump has finally concluded that Iran's Islamist rulers cannot be reasoned with, exposing the harsh reality that some regimes are driven by ideology, not negotiation.
10 July 2026
4.3 MINS
At next month’s ALP National Conference in Adelaide, Labor isn’t planning to tone down the culture wars. Quite the opposite. They’re proposing to formally enshrine Welcome to Country into party policy.
10 July 2026
3.4 MINS
After years of ideological confusion, Britain's Health Minister concedes a biological reality many never doubted—raising uncomfortable questions about politics, truth, and the cost of denying common sense in favour of "respect".
10 July 2026
2.6 MINS
Labor’s latest Middle East policy draft quietly drops key demands on Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, raising fresh questions about Australia’s stance on terrorism and Palestinian statehood.
8 July 2026
5.2 MINS
China fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile into the South Pacific on Monday with barely two hours' notice — and Canberra's fiercest response was to remind Beijing about proper etiquette.
7 July 2026
2.9 MINS
A Senate Estimates exchange reveals Australian combat engineers aren't allowed to change their own light bulbs — they must log a job through an app and wait for a contractor instead.
2 July 2026
3.2 MINS
The rainbow has become holy. The Bible has become blasphemy. While Canada's Prime Minister celebrates at a Pride parade, a New York Catholic hospice caring for terminal cancer patients faces closure — unless the nuns agree to use the 'correct' pronouns.
1 July 2026
4.9 MINS
Al-Qaeda believes Australia contains enough sympathisers to answer its call. Our leaders insist the real problem is people who notice.
30 June 2026
2.4 MINS
The heatwave in Europe is real. But turning every summer tragedy into a climate morality play requires more imagination than science.
26 June 2026
3.8 MINS
Pauline Hanson’s critics would rather play dumb than debate multiculturalism's failures. It's much easier than having a serious debate over monoculturalism — or any debate at all.
23 June 2026
3.4 MINS
I woke up on Sunday morning to discover that a Sydney boys school not only requires boys to be boys, but requires boys to remain as boys. What a time to be alive!
17 June 2026
4 MINS
Trump is calling it peace. Iran is calling it progress. History suggests it's neither.
16 June 2026
2.7 MINS
The South Australian Parliament is set to debate a private members bill that — if passed — will allow a biological man who identifies as a woman to record himself as the “mother” on the child’s birth certificate. It has already passed the Upper House with support from the Greens and Labor.
16 June 2026
3.3 MINS
Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire. And hasn’t that driven those who still don't understand how wealth is created absolutely wild.





